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Leaders of China's Communist Party, following a four-day meeting, failed to announce dramatic changes such as curbing the dominance of state industry, extending property rights to farmers or relaxing the one child birth control policy, The Associated Press reported.

2.-- The economic calendar in the U.S. Wednesday includes export and import prices for October at 8:30 a.m. EST, and the Treasury Budget for October at 2 p.m.3.-- U.S. stocks on Tuesday slipped amid a slate of lackluster earnings while Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher warned investors to prepare for a pullback of central bank stimulus.

The S&P 500 dropped 0.2% to close at 1,767.68 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average retreated 0.2% to 15,750.67. The Nasdaq was little changed at 3,919.92.

4.-- Airline stocks soared Tuesday after a settlement was reached in the proposed merger of
US Airways(LCC) and
American Airlines (AAMRQ).

The US Airways/American deal was stalled after the U.S. Department of Justice opposed it on the grounds a merger would reduce competition, increase airfare prices and create a monopoly in the industry.

6.-- Starbucks(SBUX) must pay $2.76 billion to settle a dispute with Kraft over coffee distribution, an arbitrator has ruled.

The two companies had been fighting for three years after Starbucks fired Kraft as its distributor of packaged coffee to grocery chains.

Mondelez International(MDLZ), which spun off Kraft Foods Group(KRFT) in October 2012, will get the award. 7.-- Macy's(M) is forecast to report third-quarter profit on Wednesday of 39 cents a share on sales of $6.19 billion. The retailer, based in Cincinnati, posted year-earlier earnings of 36 cents a share on revenue of $6.08 billion.

8.-- Boeing's(BA) machinists union in Washington state is scheduled to vote Wednesday on an eight-year contract extension from the airplane maker.

Boeing has said it will consider taking work on the planned 777X airliner out of the state unless the International Association of Machinists union approves the new contract.

Boeing said last week that approval of the labor deal and a package of state tax incentives were necessary for it to build the jet and its wings in Washington, Reuters reported.

9.-- Royal Dutch Shell(RDS.A) and the Iraqi government are nearing a deal to build an $11-billion petrochemical facility in southern Iraq, according to the government in Baghdad, The Wall Street Journal reported.

10.-- IntercontinentalExchange's(ICE) acquisition of NYSE Euronext(NYX) was completed on Wednesday.

IntercontinentalExchange, a futures exchange based in Atlanta, agreed to buy NYSE Euronext in December in a cash-and-stock deal then valued at $8 billion. ICE valued the deal at $10.9 billion based on the Nov. 1 closing price of its shares.